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Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by lobatan(m): 6:48pm On Mar 16, 2012 |
Assalam aleikum !!.! She used to be a Southern Baptist, a radical feminist and a broadcast journalist. Now Aminah Assilmi is an ambassador of Islam. The director of the International Union of Muslim Women, Assilmi calls Fairfield, Ohio, home. She travels the country speaking on college campuses, increasing public awareness and understanding of the faith. She wears the traditional Islamic hijab, which includes a head scarf, covering her hair and neck and modest clothing with long sleeves. Last week at the University of Tennessee, Assilmi spoke to a near-full audience on the status of women in Islam in her lecture, "A Muslim woman speaks from behind the veil." Assilmi cautions critics who say that women are oppressed in some predominately Muslim countries. She says their practices are cultural, not Islamic. "People who are held down, are held down by ignorance," she said."They follow cultural practices. Do not judge Islam by these individuals who have only practiced like the people in their family." But, Assilmi told audiences, she hasn't always been a Muslim and a proponent of Islam. Meeting her first "real life Muslims" when she took a college theater class some years ago, Assilmi said she almost dropped the class when she walked into the room and saw some Arab students in traditional hijab. In the handbook she authored, "Choosing Islam," Assilmi writes, "There was no way I was going to sit in a room with dirty heathens. .. I shut thedoor and went home." After her husband encouraged her to go back to the theater class, Assilmi said she felt it her duty to "convert the poor, ignorant Muslims." Hoping to convert the students to Christianity, Assilmi began to study the Koran, the holy book of Islam, in a quest to prove that Mohammed was a false prophet and that Islam was not a valid religion. But the more she read, the more she became interested in Islam. She was particularly interested in what the Koran had to say about men andwomen. Islamic women, she thought, "were freely beaten by their husbands andtossed aside." Assilmi says she had based her opinion on stereotypes; and soon found out those ideas were not in keeping with the Koran. Through intense study, she said she learned that Islamic women are equal to men and are paid according to the job they do regardless of their gender. Both men and women have equal rights to education. Islamic women have had the right to own property for more than 1,400 years. And when a woman marries, she does not change her last name, but keeps her father's last name. Thus, Assilmi told her college audience, "We remain our own distinct individual." "For two years I studied in order to convert Muslims to Christianity," shesaid. But during that time Assilmi said she started to change. Her husband began to notice that she no longer had an interest in going to bars or parties. She was content to stay home and study the Koran. "I was quiet and more distant," Assilmi writes in her handbook. Her husband attributed the changes in her to another man and the couple separated. After she moved out with their three children, Assilmi was visited by a Muslim holy leader who answered her questions about the faith. He asked her if she believed in only one God and Assilmi said yes. He asked her if she believed Mohammed was His messenger. Again she said yes. "He told me I was already a Muslim. I argued that I was a Christian, I wasjust trying to understand Islam. I couldn't be a Muslim! I was an American and white! "We continued talking. Later he explained that attaining knowledge and understanding of spirituality was a little like climbing a ladder." The first rung on the ladder was the Shahadah, a statement of belief that there is no God but the one God and Mohammed was his messenger. The Shahadah, done before witnesses, is in the Islamic faith,the Christian equivalent of a statement of belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. For Assilmi, taking Shahadah in 1977 was the first step toward a a deeper understanding of Islam. But she still had a few hang-ups -- like hijab. Hijab is the modest dress worn by both Muslim men and women; however its most recognizable feature is the head scarf worn by women. "I agreed with modesty, but I was vain about my hair," Assilmi said."The Koran tells us to cover ourselves to be identified as Muslims. I am a Muslim and I know what my God-given rights are. Hijab is not a requirement or restriction, but a right and a privilege. I would fight to the death to wear it." "I gave up being a women's liberationist -- it wasn't fulfilling -- I becamea Muslim ... Liberation, yeah, that's Islam," said Assilmi who adopted her name during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980. She adopted the new name "to protect my family from ignorance." She no longer uses her given name. Assilmi said Islamic women are not limited in professional fields by theirreligion. However, "The most powerful profession is being a mother. Because we form the mind of the next generation." Muslim women, she said, are often discriminated against because of thehijab. "In this country it's extremely difficult for Muslim women." That is why some Muslim women wear varying degrees of hijab. For example, some women might wear loose-fitting modest clothing, others may wear the head scarf, covering the hair and neck, and still others may have the courage to wear the face veil where only the eyes are visible. An award-winning broadcaster in the Denver market, Assilmi lost her job when she began wearing Islamic dress. She says the persecution is intense. "I've been forced off the road before -- beaten up -- and I've never lifted a hand against anyone," Assilmi said. She even tried to wear the face veil, but said, "I could not handle the experience." The defining moment came when she tried to cash a check at her bank wearing the face veil. A bank security guard drew his gun preparing to shoot if she made any questionable moves. For Assilmi, her job as a broadcaster was not the only thing she lost when she first chose Islam. Her marriage over, she also lost custody of her children because the court decided that the "unorthodox religion" would be detrimental to them. But since then, Assilmi says her children have converted to Islam and so have her parents and her ex-husband. "Relatives of mine are still becoming Muslim right and left," she said. Now at "well over half a century" and having survived bone cancer, Assilmi has made two pilgrimages to Mecca, a holy trip that Muslims areinstructed to take in their lifetime. The cancer weakened her bones and now she uses a wheelchair as a "mobility enhancement." "God decided that I would continue to live," she said. And, "I ceased to be afraid of anything. It became very important that I would speak the truth everywhere. I would have to answer to God for everything I do and say. "I love sharing Islam." |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by Ptolomeus(m): 7:08pm On Mar 16, 2012 |
"The best is hit with a stick" open research imam of the mosque in Terrassa by giving advice on how to hit women "deviant" reopen the debate on the limits of radical Islam http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9051-lo-mejor-es-golpear-con-un-baston 10 March 12 - Barcelona - Maria Molins Warn those who fear to rebel, abandonadlas in bed, beat them! ". Thus read some passages from the Koran that led to the imam of the mosque in Terrassa (Barcelona), Abdeslam Laarusi, to be now in the sights of Spanish society. His speeches, which may have urged the faithful to be corrected with physical violence and psychological behavior "deviant" women, have led to the prosecution and the Catalan police to open an investigation and accuse him of inciting male violence. For more than two months Catalan regional police has infiltrated the mosque of Doctor Pearson Street in the city to record, translate and analyze some of the speeches that the Imam recites the Friday before Abdeslam over 1,500 worshipers. According to research, the religious leader put concrete examples of how to hit a woman. "It's not breaking their bones and make them bleed, it's best to hit them with a stick, with fists or hands in different parts of the body" might advise and isolate in their home and refuse sex.
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Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by mkmyers45(m): 7:26pm On Mar 16, 2012 |
Ptolomeus: "The best is hit with a stick" open research imam of the mosque in Terrassa by giving advice on how to hit women "deviant" reopen the debate on the limits of radical Islam Haha...these two Abrahamic Religions no go kill me with their rubbish |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by mkmyers45(m): 7:27pm On Mar 16, 2012 |
@OP Can you quote your source for your |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by Ptolomeus(m): 8:18pm On Mar 16, 2012 |
http://es.knowquran.org/coran/mujeres/ 2:223 Your wives are a tilth for you. Come, then, to your field as you like, by quoting something for yourself! Fear Allah and know that you will find! And glad tidings to believers! 2:228 Divorced women shall wait three menstruations. Not afford to hide what Allah Hath created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day During this wait, their husbands are fully entitled to take them back if they wish for reconciliation. They have rights equivalent to their obligations, according to usage, but men are a degree above them. Allah is Mighty, Wise. 4:34 Men have authority over women because of the preference that Allah has given some more than others and property spending. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient and guard in absence of their husbands, what Allah has guarded. Warn those from whom you fear disobedience, leave them alone in bed, beat them! If they obey you, do not ye may thrust more with them. Allah is high, great. 4:15 Calls of you four witnesses against those of your women who commit dishonesty. If they testify, confine them at home until they die or until Allah will seek a way out. 33:30 of the Prophet! To which of you is guilty of lewdness, the punishment will be doubled. It is easy for Allah 65:1 Prophet! When you divorce women, do it at the end of your waiting period! Count well the periods: and fear Allah your Lord! Not out of their houses nor let them go forth unless they are guilty of lewdness Those are the laws of Allah, and who violates the laws of Allah is unjust to himself. You do not know ... Maybe Allah will bring about thereafter some new situation ... 66:10 Allah sets forth an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and Lot's wife. Both were under two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them, but their treachery availed them naught against Allah and said: "Come both in the Fire along with others who enter!" |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by Sweetnecta: 12:36am On Mar 17, 2012 |
@Ptolomeus: I just think that you should not have free range in discussing Quran without a muslim correcting you and those who take your position. [Quote]2:223 Your wives are a tilth for you. Come, then, to your field as you like, by quoting something for yourself! Fear Allah and know that you will find! And glad tidings to believers![/Quote]Compare the above to the below, taking into consideration that children are the seesd of their father, even the Bible says that. [Quote]Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth [righteousness] for yourselves. And fear Allah and know that you will meet Him. And give good tidings to the believers[/Quote] [Quote]2:228 Divorced women shall wait three menstruations. Not afford to hide what Allah Hath created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day During this wait, their husbands are fully entitled to take them back if they wish for reconciliation. They have rights equivalent to their obligations, according to usage, but men are a degree above them. Allah is Mighty, Wise.[/Quote]Most men are physically stronger than their women; Islam recommends that husband should provide and protect their women folks, and wife is from the woman folks. [Quote]Divorced women remain in waiting for three periods, and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day. And their husbands have more right to take them back in this [period] if they want reconciliation. And due to the wives is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable. But the men have a degree over them [in responsibility and authority]. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.[/Quote] [Quote]4:34 Men have authority over women because of the preference that Allah has given some more than others and property spending. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient and guard in absence of their husbands, what Allah has guarded. Warn those from whom you fear disobedience, leave them alone in bed, beat them! If they obey you, do not ye may thrust more with them. Allah is high, great.[/Quote]is it the beat them you dislike? I understand it to mean touch/strike her with something as light weight as her night wear or her scarf and not belt or blala/koboko or your fist as I have read from New York Times. Most of them are non muslims; lets talk to Ester Nossbaum. [Quote]4:15 Calls of you four witnesses against those of your women who commit dishonesty. If they testify, confine them at home until they die or until Allah will seek a way out.[/Quote]Let compare it to the below [Quote]Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine the guilty women to houses until death takes them or Allah ordains for them [another] way.[/Quote]Death shall overtake each. And allowing the wife to die naturally if she is not divorced since Allah in His Power and Right and Authority says He ordains another way, is completely better than the husband, sorry boyfriend killing her for mere going to the swimming pool or talking to another man which has happened recently in Lekki or Ikoyi [refer to a thread on NL]. [Quote]33:30 of the Prophet! To which of you is guilty of lewdness, the punishment will be doubled. It is easy for Allah[/Quote]This is senseless, whereas the truth is as follows; [Quote]O wives of the Prophet, whoever of you should commit a clear immorality - for her the punishment would be doubled two fold, and ever is that, for Allah , easy[/Quote]This warning is similar to what could have happened in the hands of the Jews to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, had she had committed adultery, i know fornication because she would have been stoned to death. [Quote]65:1 Prophet! When you divorce women, do it at the end of your waiting period! Count well the periods: and fear Allah your Lord! Not out of their houses nor let them go forth unless they are guilty of lewdness Those are the laws of Allah, and who violates the laws of Allah is unjust to himself. You do not know ... Maybe Allah will bring about thereafter some new situation ...[/Quote]Below is what the verse says [Quote]O Prophet, when you [Muslims] divorce women, divorce them for [the commencement of] their waiting period and keep count of the waiting period, and fear Allah , your Lord. Do not turn them out of their [husbands'] houses, nor should they [themselves] leave [during that period] unless they are committing a clear immorality. And those are the limits [set by] Allah . And whoever transgresses the limits of Allah has certainly wronged himself. You know not; perhaps Allah will bring about after that a [different] matter[/Quote]Allah has judged correctly, protecting the rights of both husband and wife and restricts the husband from any harshness. Give me something better from the Bible under the same circumstances. [Quote]66:10 Allah sets forth an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and Lot's wife. Both were under two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them, but their treachery availed them naught against Allah and said: "Come both in the Fire along with others who enter!"[/Quote]I hope that you will hope that satan, pharaoh who perished in the sea in exodus, hitler and others will enter hell? each of these people was a male. Maybe other males, too? Have you considered that, ptolomeus and his bosses for spain? |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by Nobody: 1:14am On Mar 17, 2012 |
She is probably after the 72 virgins! |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by Nobody: 6:03am On Mar 17, 2012 |
Re: Former Baptist Lady Explains Why She Is Now A Auslim by Ptolomeus(m): 4:32pm On Mar 17, 2012 |
@Sweetnecta: Just say you if the item I presented on Abdeslam Laarusi is false or true. In his sermon, he advises women to hit yes or no? |
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